Announcing the forthcoming PITCH events ...

Activities

The PITCH website provides with information about the PITCH statutes, purposes, Honorary Committee members, activities and main findings. The PITCH website provides its members with the PITCH newsletter and information about PITCH seminars and events. The PITCH website provides its Board with an information and association management tool.

PITCH events and joint events are organized by the PITCH Board, sometimes in collaboration with other organizations, with a view to debating issues of relevance to the PITCH purpose and "raison d'être". PITCH events and joint events could address, for instance, the following topics: Is open source software a chance for the economic growth of the developing countries? Could the large multinational companies, big users of technologies all around the World, become active promoters and sponsors of technological development world-wide? What are the research topics which, in priority, should be tackled at global level?

PITCH "think-tank" seminars are organized by PITCH members, who invite members of the PITCH Honorary Committee or persons identified by the Board of PITCH to provide a closed audience with updates on international technological cooperation, and the development of the global information society.

PITCH lecturers provides conference and event organizers with compelling expressions of ideas, often out-of-the-main-stream.  The PITCH lecturers' presentations draw the attention of the public to the impact in society of global technology developments, and vice-versa.

And in the future ...

The PITCH newsletter will provide information about international technological activities, and in particular those financed by research funding agencies in many countries around the world. The PITCH newsletter will include country "specials" summarizing opportunities for international technological cooperation in specific countries, as well as regular updates about opportunities raised by American and European programs. The PITCH newsletter will be available online from September 2002, at no charge for PITCH Members.

The PITCH prize will reward each year an individual or an organization active in the field of research or technological development, and whose achievements have greatly contributed towards the development of constructive international relations. The jury of the PITCH prize will include several members of the PITCH Honorary Committee and persons identified by the Board of PITCH. The PITCH prize will be awarded for the first time in 2003.

PITCH documents (reports and articles, and joint series,) will focus on issues of relevance to the PITCH purpose and "raison d'être". PITCH documents (reports and articles, and joint series,) will be signed by members of the PITCH Honorary Committee and by persons identified by the Board of PITCH. PITCH reports will aim at representing the views - be them homogeneous or more diverse - of the PITCH Honorary Committee, and they will target policy- and decision-makers. PITCH documents (reports and articles, and joint series,) will be edited by PITCH in collaboration with web portals and other publishers.

Already now you will find, in the PITCH links section, the links to web-sites of international programs for research that are well-known to PITCH Board and Honorary Committee members.